How to Not Overpay For Your Cloud Hosting Service

Cloud hosting can be expensive, especially on occasions when you are coerced to pay for what you don't need.

16:18 18 March 2020

It is also true that shortages of resources might cause downtimes. In such a scenario, there is nothing much the developers can do. Cloud hosting is not just restricted to the services of hosting. It provides more than that to owners of businesses. It will always offer some of the best security you can get along with reliable uptimes.

It’s a great service that almost every website would benefit from. But how to make cloud hosting cost-effective? Let’s run down some tips to make sure this service doesn’t suck your wallet dry.

 

1. Choose Cloud Hosting with the ‘Pay as You Use' Billing Approach

Cloud hosting is usually compared to the high usage of electricity since it gives resources as per the needs of your application or site and works on the concept of ‘pay as you go.' However, the only difference that comes in is that the electricity bill is not multiplied when power usage is more than usual.

Some cloud hosting providers offer the ‘pay as you go’ billing concept. This means that you can always begin with a small resource pool and bring in more power to your site as the project becomes more prominent, or during high-traffic surges. For this, a great option is Google’s Cloud Platform.

However, be sure to always leave a little bit of headroom for your website’s needs. For example, if you’re running a sale and have more traffic coming in than usual, you wouldn’t want to greet visitors with a downed site.

The 'pay as you use' approach can put into consideration the current application load and raise or reduce the resources on the fly; this is created because of the technology of the container. Because of that, you are only asked to pay for the resources that you have used, and there is no need to make any re-arrangements to scale up. It is essential to take on the 'pay as you use' approach because it avoids wastage of resources and ensures maximum usage of the available resources, ensures affordability, reduces the cloud expenditures regardless of the application type, eliminates issues with performance, and avoids unneeded complexity with unexpected execution of horizontal scaling.

Lastly, if you’re struggling to find a set up like this, or prefer to have a fixed amount of resources for experimentation, you can find an affordable cloud hosting provider that won’t break the bank. For this, a great example would be the cost-saving solution provided by Hostinger, or similar web hosting providers.

2. Find Ways of Scaling Efficiently

Vertical scaling is a good way of optimizing the memory and CPU utilization of any occasion in line with its current load. Is appropriate configuration is done to the vertical scaling; it will work perfectly with micro-services. Executing vertical scaling in a Virtual Machine by removing or adding the resources in the fly without leading to any issues is a hard job.

Technologies of VM allows memory ballooning, but this operation is not entirely automated. This operation needs tooling to monitor the memory pressure in the guest operating system and host and then commencing up or down processes of scaling, whichever is suitable. However, in the real world, this approach does not operate well because the process of sharing memory has to be automatic to ensure maximum efficiency.

The technology of container gives a high level of flexibility as it ensures resource sharing that is automatic within the containers on the same host with the assistance of ‘groups.' Unconsumed resources within the set restriction borders are automatically shared with other containers running on a similar hardware junction. Resource restrictions for containers can be scaled with ease without having to restart the operating instances.

3. Allow Garbage Collector with Memory Shrink

The use of containers is not sufficient to vertically scale cloud hosting services. It is essential to determine the VM of the cloud hosting service ideally. You should ensure that the garbage collector you chose works efficiently. A garbage collector with the ability to shrink memory accumulates all the live items together, eliminates the garbage and frees up the unutilized memory back to the operating system.

However, in the case of a garbage collector that doesn't do memory shrinking, the cloud hosting service will assemble all the vertical scaling and applied RAM analogously with the application load. For instance, the garbage collector that comes with the Java Development Kit neither shrinks nor solves the problems of Java VM using insufficient RAM. Luckily, there is an easy way of solving this, which is shifting to Garbage-First.

Conclusion

Cloud hosting services can be costly, especially when you are under pressure to pay for resources that you don't require. Besides, a shortage of resources leads to downtimes which is not what you want.

However, with the above-discussed tips on how you can avoid overpaying for your cloud hosting services, you’ll definitely be able to save on your site’s maintenance and upkeep. Good luck.

 

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